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Species Cybocephalus nipponicus

Coleoptera - Cybocephalus nipponicus Beetle - Cybocephalus nipponicus Beetle - Cybocephalus nipponicus Cybocephalidae - Cybocephalus nipponicus - male Beetle - Cybocephalus nipponicus Beetle - Cybocephalus nipponicus Beetle - Cybocephalus nipponicus Beetle - Cybocephalus nipponicus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Cucujid series)
Family Cybocephalidae
Genus Cybocephalus
Species nipponicus (Cybocephalus nipponicus)
Explanation of Names
Cybocephalus nipponicus Endrödy-Younga 1971
Size
1.0-1.35 mm (apex of clypeus to apex of elytra)(1)
Identification
the only adventive cybocephaline in NA and our only sexually dimorphic species (males have a yellow to light brown head and pronotum or sometimes just a light brown head)(1)
Range
adventive to MA-FL-TX(1), native to Southeast Asia
Food
Diaspididae (recorded feeding on a dozen armored scale genera)(1)
Remarks
was misidentified as C. binotatus and released in FL (1998) to combat the cycad aulacaspis scale(1)
Print References
Smith, T.R., and Cave, R.D. (2006) Life history of Cybocephalus nipponicus Endrödy-Younga (Coleoptera: Cybocephalidae), a predator of Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi (Hemiptera: Diaspididae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 108: 905-916. (Full Text)
Works Cited
1.The Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera) of America north of Mexico
Smith T.R., Cave R.D. 2006. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 99: 776-792.